White Elephant - Part II

Author

Patrick Kucharson
November 12, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Today’s Preview 

Hi gift-givers! It’s almost White Elephant season! Or I mean…Yankee Swap season. No thanks Oklahoma—you Alabama and Mississippi can keep Dirty Santa season for yourselves…

Move over pop vs soda vs coke debate...

Here’s what we’re unboxing in today’s edition:

Enjoy!

 

 

Best Gift Story:
The “White Elephant Tradition“ Gift

“Proudly, shamelessly, and gloriously brainless, it redefines "so bad it's good"...” describes the movie Sharknado. It’s about a killer tornado filled with sharks. Every year for our office’s white elephant (aka Yankee Swap) gift exchange, someone re-gifts the Sharknado DVD and accompanying DVD player. The eventual gift recipient is challenged to watch it and write a review that’s kept in the DVD’s inside cover. It’s regularly quoted/referenced around the office.

Brian from Colorado

 

 

Brainstorming 
your version of this gift

 

Tips for White Elephant Gift Exchanges:

  • Give gifts with great tradition potential

  • If you receive a gift with great tradition potential, save it for next year

  • The group experience should overshadow the utility of the actual gifts exchanged

  • If compelled to give practical gifts, add something silly to it (like the wrapping job or a single sock)

 

Sources for White Elephant Gift Ideas:

 

Just for you, I scoured Reddit to find a few personal favorites:

 

For Secret Santa gifts (you know who you’re buying for), consider inside joke gifts

 

 

Helping others
be better gift-givers 

 

Spread some love! Share this gift idea with:

  • Someone who works in an office

  • Someone whose family has a white elephant gift exchange

 

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Leaving you with a smile

 

 

Keeping Santa clean,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

 

 

 

 

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